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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 353785" data-attributes="member: 24098">I would say (and this is just my personal opinion) that 60GB is too small, go with the 80GB drive.&nbsp; Especially since you'll be devoting a chunk of that to Windows.&nbsp; Windows only needs about 4GB of space for the operating system, but if you'll actually use it and install software on its partition then 10GB or more would be better, leaving you with less than 50GB for Mac.Just to further clarify - Bootcamp allows you to install Windows XP on a separate partition on your hard drive.&nbsp; You can then boot into Windows, but you must first restart your computer.&nbsp; Parallels creates a &quot;virtual machine&quot; inside your Mac OS desktop that allows you to have both operating systems running simultaneously.&nbsp; Bootcamp is not faster than running Parallels as another poster inferred, but when you're running a virtual machine, you don't get full 3D video card support, so games like the Sims 2 will not run on Parallels (yet - I'm told they're working on it).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 353785, member: 24098"] I would say (and this is just my personal opinion) that 60GB is too small, go with the 80GB drive. Especially since you'll be devoting a chunk of that to Windows. Windows only needs about 4GB of space for the operating system, but if you'll actually use it and install software on its partition then 10GB or more would be better, leaving you with less than 50GB for Mac. Just to further clarify - Bootcamp allows you to install Windows XP on a separate partition on your hard drive. You can then boot into Windows, but you must first restart your computer. Parallels creates a "virtual machine" inside your Mac OS desktop that allows you to have both operating systems running simultaneously. Bootcamp is not faster than running Parallels as another poster inferred, but when you're running a virtual machine, you don't get full 3D video card support, so games like the Sims 2 will not run on Parallels (yet - I'm told they're working on it). [/QUOTE]

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